Three Months' Experience in Camp Thomas. By J. Herbert Clairborne,
jam, M.D. (Publishers' Printing Company, New York.)—Dr. Clairborne was an officer in the 12th New York Infantry Volunteers. He did not see any fighting; only three volunteer regiments did as far as Cuba was concerned. But he saw many things which were well worth noting. Critics of our military arrangements should read what Dr. Clairborne thinks of arrangements on the other side. It is not often that a qualified doctor gets into such a post of observation. Doctors, of course, there were in Camp Thomas, but they saw the thing from inside, or they were too much occupied with their work to observe what our author saw and happened to have the qualifications for inter- preting. We shall not quote any of his experiences; it would not be fair to give instances, Let it suffice to say that they are worth reading, adding that to go through them and record them was a service of more value than most of Dr. Clairborne's fallow-
officers, however zealous or fortunate, could hope to render.
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